@kimjacobsbeck.bsky.social
Absolutely. I teach composition and I am not giving up on actually teaching people how to write.
Attention AI sycophants: Professors will not back down on this. You are not the ones in the goddamn trenches dealing with the consequences of your willful ignorance about education/ research. It's sickening. It's evil. For shame.
December 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Absolutely. I teach composition and I am not giving up on actually teaching people how to write.
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"Y'all are punks. Y'all are cowards. Harvard, Columbia... "y'all are sitting on $40 billion??? And you can't oppose this man? Either you're cowards or you are with him and if you are with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with."
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"Y'all are punks. Y'all are cowards. Harvard, Columbia... "y'all are sitting on $40 billion??? And you can't oppose this man? Either you're cowards or you are with him and if you are with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with."
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American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863.
Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
December 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863.
Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
I’m really glad I bought an EV last year. I love it, and it’s good to see it’s making a difference overall.
EVs beat petrol cars on lifetime emissions — even on “dirty” grids.
Battery production is carbon-intensive, but EVs quickly repay that debt and end up 21–71% cleaner over 250,000 km.
We can’t wait for perfect grids: electrify transport and clean the grid now.
Battery production is carbon-intensive, but EVs quickly repay that debt and end up 21–71% cleaner over 250,000 km.
We can’t wait for perfect grids: electrify transport and clean the grid now.
December 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I’m really glad I bought an EV last year. I love it, and it’s good to see it’s making a difference overall.
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Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
Oh, f*ck off
Hassett: "On one of the Sunday shows, the anchor criticized the fact Walmart said the Thanksgiving dinner is cheaper by about $10. Then he said, 'Oh yeah, but they substituted generic stuff,' as if having a generic something is a crime for ordinary folks! It shows how out of touch these people are."
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Oh, f*ck off
Knives out
NEW: DOJ said tonight that it was DHS Secretary Kristi Noem who made the call to proceed with the deportation of more than 100 Venezuelan men to El Salvador, despite a judge's order seeking to block the transfer.
w/ @joshgerstein
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
w/ @joshgerstein
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Knives out
This is where I live. It’s ruby red here, and trust me, these older ladies are not flaming liberals.
Page One in Cincinnati:
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is where I live. It’s ruby red here, and trust me, these older ladies are not flaming liberals.
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Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
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Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
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Zohran Mamdani got more votes than the total population in five states.
November 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Zohran Mamdani got more votes than the total population in five states.
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I’m always surprised we don’t talk more about AWS as a single point of failure — and hence of vulnerability to censorship pressure.
Today's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applications—from Signal to Fortnite to key UK government services—reveals the dangers of relying on a handful of Big Tech firms, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le. These are not glitches; they are democratic failures, they say.
Amazon Cloud Outage Reveals Democratic Deficit in Relying on Big Tech | TechPolicy.Press
The AWS outage demonstrates the need for a fundamental shift in how we think about digital infrastructure, write Corinne Cath and Don Le.
www.techpolicy.press
October 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I’m always surprised we don’t talk more about AWS as a single point of failure — and hence of vulnerability to censorship pressure.
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We will being selling books this weekend at Lit Youngstown!
Photo by: @kimjacobsbeck.bsky.social of the Youngstown State University campus from a previous visit.
Photo by: @kimjacobsbeck.bsky.social of the Youngstown State University campus from a previous visit.
October 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
We will being selling books this weekend at Lit Youngstown!
Photo by: @kimjacobsbeck.bsky.social of the Youngstown State University campus from a previous visit.
Photo by: @kimjacobsbeck.bsky.social of the Youngstown State University campus from a previous visit.
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I like to think Beckett himself would have delighted in this review
(via @luxalptraum.com ht @ykomska.bsky.social)
(via @luxalptraum.com ht @ykomska.bsky.social)
October 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I like to think Beckett himself would have delighted in this review
(via @luxalptraum.com ht @ykomska.bsky.social)
(via @luxalptraum.com ht @ykomska.bsky.social)
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Portland City Councilor Mitch Green and veteran encourages those currently serving they can refuse unlawful orders.
Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland is a dangerous escalation of authoritarianism. Now is the time to find our own ways of standing up and fighting back to preserve our democracy. Fellow vets: we need you to muster. And those serving: you can refuse an unlawful order as you may receive it.
October 1, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Portland City Councilor Mitch Green and veteran encourages those currently serving they can refuse unlawful orders.
Agreed. I don’t think enough people get that a lot of the “guest” voices on MSNBC are former Republican operatives, as well as a few hosts. These were Bush admin people. They are partially responsible for the politics that allowed Trump an opening.
If this was the most "depressing 19 minutes" of Tim's life, imagine the life of Black, brown & Muslim people since the War on Terror & the ascension of Trump & MAGA's normalization of white supremacy & Islamophobia.
This nonsense civility politics. The politics of "white moderates" MLK called out.
This nonsense civility politics. The politics of "white moderates" MLK called out.
Tim Miller’s argument is familiar. Some “Never Trump” Republicans want to draw a neat line in the sand: on one side, the chaos & cruelty of Trump; on the other, the “respectable” conservatism that came before him. It’s a comforting story — for them. I call bullshit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow89...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow89...
September 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Agreed. I don’t think enough people get that a lot of the “guest” voices on MSNBC are former Republican operatives, as well as a few hosts. These were Bush admin people. They are partially responsible for the politics that allowed Trump an opening.
Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.
• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin
• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin
September 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Feckless, eh? Oh, Marco.
Rubio previews Trump's UN speech: "POTUS will point to his own history with the UN going back to his time as a developer. He actually offered to fix the UN building & instead they decided to go in a different direction, wasted a bunch of money ... it's emblematic of how feckless the UN has become"
September 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Feckless, eh? Oh, Marco.
I’ve been wondering if Tylenol’s parent company can sue them. Anyone know?
September 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I’ve been wondering if Tylenol’s parent company can sue them. Anyone know?
Where I live, it’s WKRC.
Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Where I live, it’s WKRC.
Okay, cool! Then let’s bring back the Fairness Doctrine!
FABER: I wonder whether you're just targeting comedians who are offending the president
BRENDAN CARR: Broadcast TV is different. If you have broadcast TV license, it comes with an obligation to serve the public interest.
BRENDAN CARR: Broadcast TV is different. If you have broadcast TV license, it comes with an obligation to serve the public interest.
September 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Okay, cool! Then let’s bring back the Fairness Doctrine!
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Fuck yes to this
WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
September 18, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Fuck yes to this
Don’t take the bait.
It'd be nice if someone on HJC asked Kash whether Pam Bondi's decision to shut investigations into foreign influence peddling made the US more vulnerable to foreign bots attempting to stoke division.
@raskin.house.gov
@raskin.house.gov
Russia moved to amplify online conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk’s killing just hours after it happened, seeding social media with the frightening claim that America is slipping into civil war.
September 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Don’t take the bait.
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This is an important point.
Also an important point: the media keeps referring to what Trump is doing as a “domestic crime push” when it FLAGRANTLY is not that.
It’d be easier to resist Trump’s autocratic moves if the media stopped parroting his nakedly bad-faith “crime” framing.
Also an important point: the media keeps referring to what Trump is doing as a “domestic crime push” when it FLAGRANTLY is not that.
It’d be easier to resist Trump’s autocratic moves if the media stopped parroting his nakedly bad-faith “crime” framing.
Let's say it again:
1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off.
2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off.
It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.
1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off.
2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off.
It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.
(CNN) - President Donald Trump shelved his plans to target Chicago as the next city for his domestic crime push after advisers warned him that sending in troops .. could create legal headaches they want to avoid, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/p...
@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/p...
September 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This is an important point.
Also an important point: the media keeps referring to what Trump is doing as a “domestic crime push” when it FLAGRANTLY is not that.
It’d be easier to resist Trump’s autocratic moves if the media stopped parroting his nakedly bad-faith “crime” framing.
Also an important point: the media keeps referring to what Trump is doing as a “domestic crime push” when it FLAGRANTLY is not that.
It’d be easier to resist Trump’s autocratic moves if the media stopped parroting his nakedly bad-faith “crime” framing.